"Pseudologists, " said the Master, "revel in statistics and chance in order to, at least, look scientifical. These methods though, are superbly fit for describing the non-living-, i.e. purely physical world. When a python is fed on live mice, how much chance is there of the mouse killing the python?"
"I would say abosolutely nil Master."
"Yet, it happened. The mouse then was spared and became the pet of a police squad. Remaining with the meesses, how much chance is there of mice deciding a battle? Yet we read about it in Herodotus, and it happened in the second world war. (See also Spencer's 'Sociology' for unpredictability) But sometimes, even pseudologists experience the interocular trauma, the truth hits them between the eyes. When students got the same rats for experiments, yet some group was told they had a clever strain, the other group that they had a dumb strain, it showed in the results. The so-called dumb rats even had to be poked and pushed, in order to get them to run the maze at all (Sc.Am. April. 1968). But instead of therefore abandoning the sliderulisation and starting on the study of Mind-Science, they just gave it a name and went about their (other) business (See also Sc.Am. Sept. 1968). Never think of chance, or predictions, when life is involved. It is against the Way."